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"Working with Apples & Snakes, the ""Spoken Word Trailblazers"", Britain's Children's Laureate has chosen poems from ten debut poets, all from diverse/under-represented backgrounds. Selected for their qualities of originality, expression and style, they represent the best of a new generation of gifted young poets writing for children and young people. These are poems intended to be read aloud and shared.  Themes range from video gaming to ice skating and football, hair, holidays, sisterhood, generational memories, friendship, the sense of self, personal experiences, music, and family life. Fifty poems here open windows on a  new generation's thoughts, dreams and desires, and on an exciting new wave of poetic talent. The poets are Anneliese Amoah, Antoinette Brooks, Sadatu Futa, Eileen Gbagbo, Shagufta K. Iqbal, Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, Rowan Kiffin-Murray, Jay Sandhu, Ioney Smallhorne, and Jasmin Thien. Three new poems by Joseph Coelho are also included. "

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"""Children’s Laureate Coelho has chosen poems from 10 début writers, all from under-represented backgrounds, for this new collection, which features poems about gender-fluid parents, friendship, music and more. Illustrated by a graduate of the inaugural Pathways Into Publishing programme, this anthology represents a new generation of gifted creators."" * The Bookseller *"

"""Children’s Laureate Coelho has chosen poems from 10 début writers, all from under-represented backgrounds, for this new collection, which features poems about gender-fluid parents, friendship, music and more. Illustrated by a graduate of the inaugural Pathways Into Publishing programme, this anthology represents a new generation of gifted creators."" * The Bookseller * ""The poems cover a wide range of styles and themes, offering plenty of choice and much to think about and enjoy… there really is something for everyone in this collection with lovely illustrations by Ruthine Burton."" * ReadingZone * ""With 53 poems in total, including three new poems from Joseph Coelho himself, this slim volume packs a punch... This anthology is an excellent introduction to poetry and how it can make you feel. Readers will feel seen, included and that their experiences matter after reading or listening to these poems. For upper primary and lower secondary pupils."" * BookTrust * ""Selected for their qualities of originality, expression and style, they represent the best of a new generation of gifted young poets writing for children and young people. These are poems intended to be read aloud and shared."" * Poetry Book Society * ""A unique and original anthology… This is a collection that can be enjoyed independently or shared with others, in fact many of the poems included will be a gift to those planning school assemblies. A welcome addition to any poetry collection."" * LoveReading4Kids *"

Author Information

Joseph Coelho is the Waterstones Children’s Laureate, 2022-24. He has long been involved in mentoring young poets of promise, working with Apples and Snakes, whose special mission is to promote spoken-word poetry from under-represented communities. Ruthine Burton completed the Inaugural Pathways Into Children's Publishing  in 2021. Her parents came originally from Dominica and French Guiana. She has a B.A. hons in Visual Art from the University of Wales in Aberystwyth, and also an M.Sc. in Software Engineering. She has worked as a pavement portrait artist and in the games industry. Ruthine is one of the three illustrators featured in Our Rights, edited by Jake Hope (Otter-Barry Books). She is based in South West London.

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